A 10-year-old girl was convinced to send graphic photos of herself by someone claiming to be a teenage boy that the girl met through an iPod app, according to Braselton police.

A mother in a Braselton subdivision told police that after she took a shower, her 10-year-old daughter called her for help, saying “it was bad,” according to an incident report. The girl initially didn’t tell her mother what happened, but when an officer arrived, he saw the mother pacing on the front porch with tears in her eyes. She was also holding an iPod.

The mother explained that her daughter was using an iPod app called “Kick Me.” There, the girl met someone claiming to be a 14-year-old male who gave her his name. The girl said she only knew the suspect through the app.

The suspect asked for a photo of the girl, according to police. She sent him a photo of her face. He then asked for more and she sent another photo showing her from the breast line up.

After another request, the girl sent the suspect a photo of her breasts, according to an incident report. He then asked for a photo of her squeezing and pinching her breasts, which she did.

The suspect further asked the young girl for a photo of her vagina, according to police. She also sent him that photo.

When the girl didn’t send more photos, the suspect threatened to post her photos that he received on social media websites, according to police. The girl denied having knowledge of the suspect.

Braselton police didn’t interview the girl that day, but said they would speak to her for an investigation the following day.

Other Incidents
Other incidents reported to the Braselton Police Department last week included:
•dispute at a Fisk Falls Drive address, where a woman said she and her sister — who are both in their thirties — were not getting along and having issues. The woman was worried that her sister would send her back to jail because she is on probation. The woman’s probation officer told her to file a police report. An officer said he just filed an information report because no laws were broken.

•criminal trespass at a Loowit Falls Way address, where a woman said someone poured kitty litter over her daughter’s car. A few nights before that, someone left tampons and pads in her yard. The woman believed that someone from her daughter’s former high school may be involved. The daughter said she was in a dispute with a girl over boyfriend issues. The daughter didn’t want to confirm the other girl was involved, but didn’t know of any other potential suspects. An officer advised the mother to install a motion sensor for a flood light on her driveway above the vehicles.

•criminal damage to property at a Morning Light Way address, where a man said someone threw 12 eggs at his house, which he estimated to cause $1,200 in damage. The man said he was going to clean up the eggs, but he wanted a police report for insurance purposes.

•death investigation at an East Lake Drive address, where a woman said her child’s babysitter was not responding and was slumped over in a chair. The 71-year-old babysitter had not been feeling well for a few days and the woman said she told her to go to a doctor. Officers could see through a window that the elderly woman was slumped in a chair. They entered the house through a rear door and discovered that the woman didn’t have a pulse and was cold to the touch. Firefighters also confirmed that she had died. The coroner was contacted and an officer called the woman’s relatives. Her body was taken to a funeral home by the coroner.

•damage to property at Chateau Elan, where a woman said her juvenile son was hit by a golf cart while she was on the 15th hole of a golf course. The woman said she noticed that the golf cart started rolling forward and she ran after it. Her son was thrown from the golf cart and pinned between it and a fence. A Barrow County EMS unit said there were no signs of a broken bone or severe sprain, according to an incident report. An officer talked to the owner of the fence. The officer said two sections of the fence were obviously damaged. The owner said the child’s father said he would return later to pay for the damage.

•theft by taking at a Ga. Hwy. 53 address, where a man said another man that he knows has threatened him. The first man has a woman who had a relationship with the second man staying at his house because the second man was abusive to her. The first man further reported that another man that was living on his property took a took and a trailer, and later returned with a mower. That man cut the grass and put the mower in a barn. A few days later, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office took that man’s wife to jail because the lawnmowers were stolen. The first man said he had video of the man leaving with the truck and returning with the stolen lawnmowers. The man said he gave the video to a Jackson County deputy.

•criminal trespass at a Reisling Drive address, where a woman said someone entered a vacant house through doors in the garage and cut a screen window, cut sheet rock, spilled paint on the floors and left alcohol containers in the house. The woman is trying to sell the house.

•suspicious vehicle on Interstate 85, where a caller said a car was parked sideways in the roadway. An officer found a Dodge Neon parked sideways in the fast lane. The vehicle was locked and was parked in a curve with limited view for oncoming drivers. The officer said the vehicle was extremely hazardous on the interstate. He broke a window, put the vehicle into neutral and pushed it out of the roadway. A towing company removed it. The officer contacted the owner, who said it broke down and he parked it on the side of the roadway. The owner said it was having clutch problems and must have slipped out of gear and rolled into the interstate.

I'mnot going to jump on the bandwagon you started. i had an eleven yr old daughter who owned an IPOD too and found out through school friends how to do apps behind my back and to hide them in the phone where a parent couldnt find them. So for all you know, thats what this child had done. thank goodness the child came to her mother and told her what was going on instead of trying to hide it. A parent can set up security for these IPODs, but children through their "friends" find out ways to get things behind their parents bad. WE set up her IPOD to go to our emails, but a friend at school gave her another email to set up for other apps and with a ITUNES card, a child can get whatever they want under another email. A parent cant be everywhere, and you can always try to stop curiosity, but fruends influence them more and more.

thats the stupidest thing i have ever heard. "what parent would let there child have a ipod with apps without supervision" so you only let your child use the ipod when you are around standing over their sholder? when your child grows up wild and crazy you got yourself to blame for being overly controlling. the child sent the photos HERSELF. thats her own fault. all you parents are so scared of the internet. please its just as scary in a regular school. this website makes me sick with all the comments people post on it. Barrow County's people really need to get it together.

Ten-year-old children need to be "overly controlled." Do I only allow my ten-year-old to have access to the internet while I am actively supervising? ABSOLUTELY. I am a school teacher, and I know what happens when you turn away.

And sir, you need to develop a healthy fear of the internet. Have you any idea the evil that exists there? Children have parents because they are not capable of making adult decisions yet - decisions like whether or not to send nude photos of themselves to others. Parents carry the responsibility of supervising sufficiently enough to protect their children for sickos.

Ten year old children have no business being on the internet unsupervised, much less carrying the internet around in their pocket. While, as the mother of two daughters myself, I certainly feel for this mother, there are ways to prevent this sort of behavior. Those methods are not popular or necessarily fun to enforce, but very close supervision and the decision to remove the option of social media at this age would be a good start.

I agree. Even if the app is free. She still has to have an apple account with a credit card on file.

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